Beauty, Mercy, Justice

Paul VI, Radical

26. However, certain concepts have somehow arisen out of these new conditions and insinuated themselves into the fabric of human society. These concepts present profit as the chief spur to economic progress, free competition as the guiding norm of economics, and private ownership of the means of production as an absolute right, having no limits nor concomitant social obligations

This unbridled liberalism paves the way for a particular type of tyranny, rightly condemned by Our predecessor Pius XI, for it results in the “international imperialism of money.”(26)

Such improper manipulations of economic forces can never be condemned enough; let it be said once again that economics is supposed to be in the service of man. (27)

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We’d have to wonder what Pius XI and Paul VI would say today, when liberalism has a whole new meaning, including, Catholic Hospitals being forced to either do abortions/prescribe abortion inducing prescriptions, or shut down; Catholic institutions being forced by liberal laws to cover contraceptive & abortion drugs, and other contraceptives; Christian churches being boxed in by a liberal government that is rapidly moving in the direction of gay marriage, and at some point being told to perform them, or suffer the consequences.

It is one thing helping the poor, and developing a society that shares its resources; it, however, is another thing altogether, to pursue those things at the cost of our moral foundation.

Change has come, and come rapidly, but filled with a multitude of cancers.

If Jesus had chosen to come in our time, I wonder who he would dress down first with a verbal diatribe? The modern day liberals? Or the dollar driven conservatives? Or each of us for choosing to go along with their evils.